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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5107032, member: 12088"] This is essentially Daniel's reading of Geno's BE Media Day remarks, like here: [INDENT]“We have nine players [and] all can contribute. The big thing is they contribute really good when they're on the floor with Paige, so we gotta find a way to be really good when she's not on the floor,” the coach said. “I think that's where maybe Kaitlyn can help — and KK — and it's really important that we get Azzi back because if we could get in a situation that whenever Paige is not on the floor, Azzi can take on that.”[/INDENT] But he downplays the confidence Geno implies in what Azzi will do when she comes back. There's an 'if' involved, of course, but here's my read of the same remarks with a different emphasis: [INDENT]Geno spoke about the return of the Azzi who looked like an NPOY contender at the beginning of sophomore year. This is what he's hoping for, so Paige and Azzi can be an overlapping platoon -- each playing 25-30 minutes and overlapping for 20. This is what he's looking for in March.[/INDENT] And on Kaitlyn, I can see now how some folks who've been in her camp all along (like [USER=10435]@BBallF[/USER]) may be right. Geno may well expect to rely on her much more than I first thought. I was expecting to see a simple platoon with KK, but that's not exactly how he talks here. He says she almost like an assistant coach on the floor, that her maturity is impressive, that she's eminently coachable. These are the sort of things he says about someone he expects to be able to rely on heavily. [/QUOTE]

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